Aurcana Corporation (AUN.V) is down another 5% at 71 cents today, and has touched a day low of 68 cents with close to 7 million shares traded.

Shares of Gold Resource Co. (GORO) saw major losses on Tuesday. The stock traded down ($1.84) or 6.47% for the day and last traded at $26.59. Approximately 389,871 shares changed hands during mid-day trading.

Mercator Minerals Ltd. (ML.TO) went down by more than 8% to $3.38 after announcing that it has agreed to acquire Creston Moly Corp. (CMS.V) in a friendly deal that values Creston at about $195 million, which will will create a “significant” copper and molybdenum miner with operations in the United States and Mexico.

Endeavour Silver Corp. (CAN) (NYSE:EXK) went down by 7.84% to close at $11.40 with total traded volume of 8.33 million shares in the last trading day. Its price to earnings ratio stands at 114 times till its last trading session. The RSI value of 64.93 times depicts that the current share value is in overbought level.

Apr 12, 2011 (SmarTrend(R) News Watch via COMTEX) — Below are the top five companies in the Precious Metals & Minerals industry ranked by the lowest short interest ratio. A low short interest ratio may indicate that there are only a few people who are bearish on the stock.

DENVER, April 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Gold Resource Corporation (GORO) (NYSE Amex: GORO) today announced the acceptance of its CFO’s resignation who has taken a full-time position with another company. Gold Resource Corporation is a low-cost gold producer with operations in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico.

VANCOUVER, April 11 /CNW/ – Silver Wheaton Corp. (“Silver Wheaton” or the “Company”) (TSX: SLW) (NYSE: SLW) is pleased to announce that Randy Smallwood, currently the Company’s President, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer. He will replace Peter Barnes, who has resigned effective April 11, 2011. As part of the transition process, Mr. Barnes has agreed to enter into a consulting agreement with Silver Wheaton.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Gammon Gold (NYSE:GRS) hit a new 52-week high Monday as it is currently trading at $10.67, above its previous 52-week high of $10.52 with 96,889 shares traded as of 9:31 a.m. ET. Average volume has been 1.7 million shares over the past 30 days.

The Toronto-based gold and silver mining company expects to produce 255,000 to 290,000 gold equivalent ounces at a total cash costs of US$455 to US$485 per gold equivalent ounce in 2011, assuming a gold equivalency ratio of 55 to 1.

North America’s largest iron-ore producer,Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (CLF – Analyst Report), reached an agreement with steel giant ArcelorMittal (MT – Snapshot Report) to settle disputes over price reopener entitlements for 2009 and 2010 and pellet. Cliffs will get a payment of around $250 million to $270 million after reaching an agreement with ArcelorMittal.